Hi Ed,
Your statement "Windows 98 running a Celeron 500" says it all. Documented
fact that Windows machines running in excess of 200MHz have difficulties
with serial port negotiation with a Newton, exacerbated as the clock speed
gets higher than 200MHz. Try the SlowDown program, slowdown.exe (~140K),
available at http://members.xoom.com/dburggraf/files/SlowDown.exe. you may
have to fiddle with the controls a bit to optimize the speed of backups and
downloads, but most users say it works great.
Regards,
Mr. Anonymous
BTW: You're right, there is no reference to slowdown.exe in the FAQ.
Hmmmm...
----Original Message Follows----
From: Ed Kummel <tech_ed@yahoo.com>
To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
Subject: Re: NTLK NCU no connect!
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:14:05 -0800 (PST)
So I did my best. I looked at the FAQ. I read through
the entire thing and yet didn't find any indication as
to the sollution of my particular problem. I'm going
to solve my initial problem by getting one of those
6mb cards that was advertised earlier for creating a
full B/U of my Newt for the upgrade. But eventually I
want to add a Network card and will be needing to send
pkgs to my Newt...So, do we know why NCU fails on
connecting to the Newt. And if it's actually on the
FAQ, can someone point me closer to the actual
location?
Thanks
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Laurent Daudelin <laurent_daudelin@fanniemae.com>
wrote:
> Ed Kummel wrote:
>
> > So, I want to send my Newton to the Doc and get it
> > upgraded...I found a copy of NCU, installed it and
> it
> > ran fine. I connected the cable and everything is
> > connected correctly to Serial port 2. I start NCU,
> > select serial port 2 and set it for the maximum. I
> > then hit Dock and connect on the Newton. NCU shows
> > connected to the Newton, but the Newton times out
> > because it isn't getting anything back from NCU.
> (btw,
> > this is on a Windows 98 running a Celeron 500)
> After
> > the Newton times out, I restart NCU and try again.
> It
> > will never again acknoledge the Newton until I
> restart
> > the computer. Then it will do the same thing. I've
> > done this 20+ times. Once it did connect and I was
> > able to start a backup, but it crapped out half
> way
> > through and I haven't been able to get a
> connection
> > since. Any ideas?
>
> Check the FAQ:
>
> <http://www.info-newt.com/faq/index.html>
>
> -Laurent.
>
=====================================================================
> Laurent Daudelin
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